Friday Foxer #190

Every Friday, Tally-Ho Corner’s cleverest clogs come together to solve a ‘foxer’ handcrafted by my sadistic chum and colleague, Roman. A complete ‘defoxing’ sometimes takes several days and usually involves the little grey cells of many readers. All are welcome to participate.

The honeycomb below is a fancy form of wordsearch in which every cell is used, and words can curl and zigzag but never overlap. Each hive foxer has a theme (some past ones: owls, rugby, Egypt, UFOs…). Identifying the theme is a vital part of the defoxing process.

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SOLUTIONS

Last week’s cluster foxer themes:

things that contain iron (defoxed by Aergsital)
a1. mercury (Aergistal, a_monk)
a2. australia (Colonel_K, a_monk)
a3. 2024 olympic medals
a4. old vic theatre (Colonel_K)
a5. aisne (Colonel_K)

phrygian caps (defoxed by captaincabinets)
b1. smurfs (captaincabinets, a_monk)
b2. playing card featuring phrygian cap (Colonel_K, a_monk)
c2. coat of arms of columbia (Colonel_K, a_monk)
c3. phrygia (Colonel_K)
c4. paralympic mascot (captaincabinets)

english prisons (defoxed by Colonel_K)
c1. everton lock-up (a_monk)
d1. wormwood scrubs (Colonel_K)
e1. strangeways (Aergistal)
e2. reading gaol (Colonel_K)
e3. dartmoor (Aergistal)

the 1948 locomotive exchanges (defoxed by Colonel_K)
d2. witherslack hall (Aergistal)
d3. hussar (Nutfield)
d4. seagull (Colonel_K)
e4. bude (Colonel_K)
e5. henry vi (a_monk)

peacocks (defoxed by a_monk)
b3. the annunciation, with saint emidius (Colonel_K, a_monk)
b4. jonnie peacock’s pillar box (a_monk, Colonel_K)
b5. peacock chair (a_monk, Nutfield)
c5. peacock clock (captaincabinets)
d5. peacock spider (Colonel_K, a_monk)